Lucid Dreaming. Chaos Magick. Intent & Will. Conjuring A Creator.Evolution is individual and can be a matter of choice. How will you learn to BE immortal so that you may BECOME immortal? This is the riddle where it all begins.

Even though this material appeared in another series of posts elsewhere on the forum, I think some of the material here might need its own space, so as to be more easily searchable. --MN, February 2013

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I'm going to start with a caution. It is this: Don't get caught up in the words. See with the third eye. Hear with the heart.

While the double is the self, the double is also *not* the self in any traditional sense. While you are eating your morning cereal in your organic human form, the double is exploring the secret vaults of the Vatican in the year 1027, and simultaneously on a starship in the Andromeda Galaxy in the year 2939. Put another way, the double is the projection of the self beyond the "limitations" of the organic/mortal form. As such, the double is the inorganic vessel of one's immortality.

What does that mean? It means that the double can walk through walls or fly or bi-locate. *You* as the mortal human source can do these things as well, but generally speaking (remember my caution above - GENERALLY speaking) what you would be doing if you were to walk through a wall would be an inhabitation of the double - more precisely, you would have opened your eyes inside the twin. Put another way, you would have shifted your assemblage point from organic to inorganic from "matter" to energy.

With all of that dutifully said... the double is a complex duality, yet the double is utterly simple. The double is the Self in eternity, the totality of yourself. It does not exist by default, but as a direct result of your Intent and the movement of your Will. It sometimes helps to visualize the mortal self as the projector and the double as the projection. When the projector is eventually unplugged*, the projection remains as the hologram of the seeker's ongoing evolution. (That, of course, is if the seeker is successful in creating/projecting the twin in the first place - which is a fundamental aspect of self-willed, bootstrap evolution.)

*Unplugged? Eh? Put simply, the mortal projector is "unplugged" when one dies, transforms, transcends or transmogrifies - whichever comes first... with the absolute Knowledge that "first" has no real meaning once the seeker has a firm understanding of The First Fundamental Lie.

Shadow Fox wrote: To put it in Castaneda's terms, the Double is the one that starts "dreaming you", and no longer are you the one dreaming her, if one would look backward in "time".

What I have determined over the years is that this statement by Castaneda is a wormhole all unto itself, at least as far as it relates to how most seekers interpret it. For anyone on the forum who may be interested in the exact quote, it is this:

Carlos Castaneda wrote: The self dreams the double. Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. Your double is dreaming you. No one knows how it happens. We only know that it does happen. That's the mystery of us as luminous beings. You can awaken in either one. (don Juan, TALES OF POWER)

2. For a period of "time" (a blink of an eye that last a thousand lifetimes and beyond), the double goes through the process of self-manifestation in much the same way a child goes through the process of learning, growing, evolving. But even to use such terms limits what the double is, because there is an implication (false) that there is a linear progression. In order to understand the double fully, one must unplug their mind from the notion of linear time entirely. The double simply is... and yet it must be created through the processes described in TEACHINGS OF THE IMMORTALS, and as discussed on this forum.

3. Once the double has garnered sufficient Knowledge, it returns (though it never really "went" anywhere) to the seeker in the form of the inner teacher. This is not to be confused with the internal dialog. Many newbies don't know the difference and it can be a fatal mistake. For those who do experience the double as the internal teacher, this is the voice of gnosis (silent knowing) and here's where things start to get interesting. The double actually instructs the mortal self in HOW to create/project the double itself. "You created me to create you." At this level, the seeker begins to awaken (reawaken?) and if one doesn't bang one's head too hard on the quantum paradox (which is a magnificent duality), one starts to see what is meant by the words... "The double is dreaming you." In other words, the thing you thought you already created is telling you how to create it.

4. At some point, the double and the seeker become One - whether through transformation, transcendence or transmogrification. This is the moment when self and double become the singularity of consciousness. This is the conjoining of awareness which is permanent in the sense that the mortal self no longer defaults back to the dayshine world, but instead the singularity of consciousness embraces the sentient universe in a quantum, energetic sense. This is the platform from which the next evolution may begin. This is the immortal condition.

Ahhhh...Just love to hear the sound of wheels grinding and spinning...smoke from the ear....To Understand the Incomprehensible that One already Knows... To converse w/ the Eternally Silent... The Teacher who never stops "speaking" from the Darkend Abyss of forgotten Dreams. Things once understood that cannot be erased, branded on the Soul w/ Flames of Ice... Who Am I??

I Am...and so are you.

Peace--- Rzc!!

"What you cannot find within you will not find without, for your fear is more AFRAID of YOU than you are of it" RZC.

" I hate the thought of killing anything, it's the last thing I would advise. But when it comes to the matter of Survival, all creatures are fair game" Les Stroud.

Sun wrote:isn't the "Twin" basically the spirit, which does in fact travel to different areas more while we are asleep, gathering knowledge which is then downloaded through the soul from the universe?

The twin is the emerging Other. Some call it the energy body or the dreaming body, but that isn't entirely accurate. The twin can take on a life of its own (or several, simultaneously). To better understand the twin, it would help to read TEACHINGS OF THE IMMORTALS.

The twin is the self in eternity. The seeker's task is to create the twin so that the twin may create you.

We are creator and created, dreaming toward one another. When we meet in the middle the dream becomes a separate reality capable of being inhabited. This is how we seize the tiller of creation. This is how we become I Am.

Sun wrote:thankyou for your info, i thought that we were already IAM, the IAM being all that is, i will check out the teachings.

One way of looking at it is to consider that we have the POTENTIAL to become the I-Am. We have all the ingredients, but as humans we have to work at putting the pieces together to form a cohesive and coherent mosaic (self/twin/gestalt).

At least that's how I've come to see it.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. (Nikos Kazantzakis)